Gerd Kroske

Gerd Kroske (born January 4, 1958 in Dessau ) is a German author , director and film producer .

Life

The son of a university professor and a teacher grew up in Leipzig and Berlin . In Berlin he trained as a concrete worker. Afterwards he worked as a telegram messenger and in youth cultural work and passed the Abitur at the adult education center . In 1980 he began studying cultural studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Since he was suspected of having known that a friend had escaped from the GDR , he had to leave the university again and did his basic military service . In 1982 he continued his studies and at the same time enrolled as a guest student at the "Konrad Wolf" University of Film and Television in Potsdam - Babelsberg . In 1987 he graduated from the Humboldt University of Berlin from, made his second degree directing at the HFF on and worked until 1991 as an author and playwright in the DEFA - Documentary Film Studio .

After he was sent to Leipzig by DEFA in August 1989 to do project research, in October and November he began a film about the Monday demonstrations in 1989/1990 in the GDR . Produced at record speed, the film Leipzig was shown at the end of October at the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film . After watching drunk people molest a street cleaner , Kroske began the first film in his Kehraus trilogy in February 1990 . The film Kurt or you should laugh about a patient in a psychiatric clinic was made in 1989 on his own initiative by the artist Kurt Wanzki. It was only after a filming permit for the clinic had been granted in 1991 that Kroske was able to finish his last film produced for the DEFA documentary film studio. His internationally and nationally known and award-winning films are u. a. the "Kehraus trilogy" (Kehraus, 1990; Kehrein, Kehraus 1996; Kehraus, again, 2006), "Vokzal-Bahnhof Brest" 1994, "Der Boxprinz" 1999/2000; "Heino Jaeger - look before you kuck", 2012; "Leipzig im Herbst" - with S. Richter and A. Voigt - 1989. His cinematic work is a very independent and enriching contribution to current German filmmaking. He tells the cinematic state of time, as the DVD box that appeared in 2013 was named. Gerd Kroske has been a freelance writer and director since 1991. In 1996 he founded the documentary film production company realistfilm in Berlin , where he works as a producer. Kroske held various jury and teaching activities in the film industry.

Filmography

• 1988/89 Cassiber (Academy of Arts)
• 1989: Leipzig in autumn (DEFA documentary film studio)
• 1990: La Villette (DEFA documentary film studio)
• 1990: Departure from Leipzig - October 1989 (scenario)
• 1990: Kehraus (DEFA documentary film studio)
• 1991: Kurt or you should laugh (DEFA documentary film studio)
• 1991: Smart women, bright girls (Ö-Film)
• 1992: Northern Lights (Dokfilmgesellschaft GmbH)
• 1993: short circuit (Gemeni-Flms, WDR )
• 1993/94: Vokzal - Brest train station (ö-Film, WDR)
• 1996/97: Galera (Duran-film, Caligari)
• 1996/1997: Kehrein, kehraus (Realist film, ZDF , 3sat )
• 2002: The Boxing Prince (Realist film, WDR, SWR , SR )
• 2004: Autobahn Ost (Leykauffilm, WDR, MDR , RBB )
• 2006: Die Stundeneiche (Realist film, RBB)
• 2006: Kehraus, again (realist film, MDR)
• 2007: Wolli's Paradise (realist film)
• 2009: Barriers (realist film, ZDF, 3sat)
• 2012: Heino Jaeger - look before you kuck (realist film)
• 2014: Drawing lines (Realistfilm, MDR, rbb)
• 2015: Grenzpunkt Beton (realist film)
• 2018: SPK complex (realist film, rbb)

Awards

• 1989: 32nd Leipzig International Documentary and Short Film Week for Cinema and TV , “Prize of the International Jury” for Leipzig in autumn
• 1990: 33rd International Leipzig Film Week for Documentary and Animated Film , “Special Prize of the International Jury” and the Lord Mayor of Leipzig for Kehraus
• 1995: 17th International Film Festival, "Cinema du reél" "Gran Prix" for Vokzal station in Brest
• 1995: VI. Encontros internacionais de Cinema in Lisbon, “Prix Menção Honrosa” for Vokzal-Bahnhof Brest
• 1997: Lobby Filmfest Frankfurt am Main, "Audience Award" for Galera
• 1997: IV. Festival Internacionais de Cine Independiente de Barcelona / Spain, "ex-aequo" for Galera
• 1999: Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival , International Jury Runner Up Prize for Kehrein, Kehraus
• 2000: International Festival du Cinema Documentaire "Visions du reél" Nyon / Switzerland, "Prix du Longmetrage" for The Boxing Prince
• 2008: Cinema du réel, Paris Honorable Mentions of the int. Jury for Wollis Paradies
• 2009: Prize for the Promotion of German Film Art (ex aequo)
• 2012: 55th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film , “Golden Dove” for Heino Jaeger - look before you kuck
• 2013: Filmfest Schleswig-Holstein Augenweide , 2013 film award for Heino Jaeger - look before you kuck
• 2014: Artist in Residence Israel Filmfund
• 2014: Duisburg Film Week, “Audience Award” for drawing lines.
• 2015: Nomination for the Grimm Prize for Heino Jaeger - look before you kuck
• 2018: Nomination for the Grimm price for drawing lines.
• 2018: "Clara Sereni Award, best psychiatry theme documentary" at the PerSo Film Festival 2018 for SPK KOMPLEX

literature

• Günter Agde :  Kroske, Gerd . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Günter Agde: demo rubbish or gentle perseverance with irony. The three Leipzig films by Gerd Kroske. In: Tobias Ebbrecht (Hrsg.): GDR - remembering, forgetting. The visual memory of the documentary. Schüren, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89472-687-4 , pp. 92-108.
• Gerd Kroske - Time states. Films 1990–2012. (5 DVDs, color + b / w, approx. 900 min. And booklet), Absolut Medien, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-89848-397-1 .

Web links

• Gerd Kroske in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Gerd Kroske at filmportal.de
• DEFA Foundation : biography of Gerd Kroske

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Realistfilm website
2. ↑ Absolut Medien: Gerd Kroske - Time Conditions ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.